The stress intensity variation of an orthotropic perforated plate containing an internal crack (Q1261833)

The elastic problem of an infinite orthotropic plate with different roots of its characteristic equation, when the fibers are oriented perpendicularly to an internal crack, and the plate is weakened by an elliptic hole, is solved using Lekhnitskij's theory [\textit{S. G. Lekhnitskij}, Anisotropic plates (1968)]. The plate is subjected to prescribed stresses at infinity, while the boundary conditions are given at the flanks of the crack, at the rim of the perforation and at infinity. Using the complex variable method, the solution of the problem is reduced to the evaluation of Cauchy-type integrals concerning the analytic functions of the problem. The numerical solution of the problem revealed an intense variation of mode-I stress intensity factors at the crack tips.